A hand-held, manually-operated, file-like surgical instrument with a ridged surface of coarse grooves or teeth designed to be used in surgical procedures, typically orthopaedic surgery. It is made of high-grade steel and is used to scrape and smooth the surface of bone. It will have coarse cutting ridges along all or part of the distal working end and a handle at the proximal end. A rasp differs from a file in that the grooves or teeth are much coarser than a file so that they will not clog so easily and render the instrument unusable until cleaned of the debris. This is a reusable device.